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The title says it all. My dad was using the computer to watch some videos online when Mozilla Firefox froze. Then I tried to get into the task manager using Ctrl+Alt+Del and that wouldn't work. Tried right clicking the taskbar and going into task manager and that didn't work either. So I just shoved the power button to turn off the computer, and turned it back on. It hung on the "Starting Windows" screen for a while, then it launched into check disk. It scanned for a bit, then said "File record segment 2xxx is unreadable" and it kept going until about 58%, then it just kept giving "File record segment 3xxxx is unreadable" and kept going up until "File record segment 44139 is unreadable". Then it said something about index errors and the computer reboot. Now it says "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". Does anyone have any insight?

So I threw in my windows 7 CD to try and repair the startup, but it didn't work. Now the computer rebooted and is going through check disk again. I already switched the SATA ports on the motherboard. Is there anything anyone can suggest?

Alright, looks like it recovered some stuff, said something about orphan files. Windows 7 booted up now, and I used Speccy and Crystal DiskInfo to check the drive and both said the drive was healthy. I ran WesternDigital's drive checker and that came back with a pass too. What's going on?

From what you describe, the file system got corrupted somehow. This is usually caused by powering off the computer by pressing and holding the power button so Windows does not get a chance to close all files and do an orderly shutdown. A power outage can also cause this.

check disk is giving me "File record segement xxxxx is unreadable"

Hard disk is failing? Error message"File record segment is unreadable"Yesterday when I switch on my computer, it automatic diskcheck on my E disk. I have 3 HDD, which is C: (My main partition, installed Windows on this HDD), D: is for all my game files (Installed games) and E: is for all my music, movies, game installer, software etc.
So back to the point, when I...

Hardware & Devices

Windows check disk stopped at "xy file record processed"Hi,
I doubt the bad sector on hard disk, so I made check disk through the Windows 7 (not in cmd mode). In processing check disk stops at stage "2154545 file record processed" (2154545 is random number), and I wait for 2 hours but without any results. Why check disk stopped at this point? What...

Performance & Maintenance

CHKDSK at startup, getting "File recored segment XXXXX is unreadable."Good day! I'm currently helping my uncle with his laptop (Acer Aspire 5742Z) running on Windows 7 with a problem stated at the title. I've tried waiting for it to finish up which took a couple of hours but go a BSOD moments after trying to login through windows so after it restarted I canceled the...

Performance & Maintenance

Laptop DVD-RW Issue: "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable"I am working on someones laptop with the complaint that the DVD drive stopped working. It was working last night. Running W7 32 bit.
I tried to play some CDs and DVDs in Windows. Tried to boot a Linux disk, a Partition Wizard Disk, an Acronis Boot disk, a Windows 7 Disk. No play, no boot.
In...

Hardware & Devices

"The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable."(I love this forum).
Hey guys, I'm having a bit of problems with my USB thumb-drive. Whenever I try to format it (via Windows) it says "The disk is write protected." and on accessing, it gives the following error,
"The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable".
I decided to look-up on...